Gilbert Godfrey Infomercial Outtakes
Does a really useless shoehorn product exist, and has someone hired Gilbert Godfrey to sell it? Yes and yes:
Does a really useless shoehorn product exist, and has someone hired Gilbert Godfrey to sell it? Yes and yes:
This is a very special advertisement for a used 1994 BMW 530i.
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Instead of leading off with some thoughts about the commercials, I would like to begin by saying the remnants of The Who sounded pretty terrible at half time. I think it’s clear CBS decided that the band should play to level up their synergy with CSI: Miami (since their opening theme is Baba O’Riley) but failed to make sure none of the surviving band members were dying from a disease that first becomes symptomatic with a horrible, grating death rattle that occurs when the infected attempts to sing.
Terrible. Just terrible.
There were a lot of large rodents in the Super Bowl 2010 commercials. There was at least one beaver, two prairie dogs, and one ground hog. There were also many shots of men in underwear, and men being emasculated. Then several ads shared the theme of the faux-cheap production. I think the connection amongst these three themes is clear. I won’t condescend to anyone by spelling out the obvious.
As usual, Taco Bell did not fail to disappoint. Click here to watch Charles Barkley take you his own strange Willy Wonka boat ride through the magical land of refried beans and globs of melted cheese. Watching this I was reminded of Burger King’s strange attempt to simultaneously resurrect and re-kill Hootie’s career several years ago.
For some of the best of the faux-bad, Boost Mobile should be embarrassed forever that it made this. Gross guys, just gross.
And I really wish Godaddy would put their designs on their on-going campaign to bed. I assume it’s working for them but it is overkill on the lowest common denominator. Class it up, jerkasses. Why do I have to be the only classy thing what cares about what is classy and what isn’t classy.